Dreyfus Point
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 31 ′ S , 60 ° 50 ′ W | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| coast | Barclay Bay | |
| Waters | Zornitsa Cove | |
The Dreyfus Point (English; Spanish Cabo Dreyfus , in Argentina Cabo Scesa ) is a headland on the west side of the John Paul II Peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It protrudes 0.8 km southwest of Kudoglu Point into Barclay Bay .
Chilean scientists named it after Iván Dreyfus Viera, engineer of the Fuerza Aérea de Chile and participant in the 3rd Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1948–1949). The further background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Dreyfus, Cabo in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)